Merica

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Merica

Apertural view of shell of Merica

sinensis (Reeve, 1856)

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
 Superfamily: Cancellarioidea

Family: Cancellariidae

Genus: Merica
H. Adams & A. Adams,

1854

Type species

Cancellaria melanostoma G.B. Sowerby

II, 1849

Synonyms[1]

 Merica (Merica) H. Adams & A.

Adams, 1854

 Momoebora Kuroda & Habe, 1971

Merica is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg
snails.[1]

Species
Species within the genus Merica include:

 Merica aqualica (Petit & Harasewych, 1986)

 Merica asperella (Lamarck, 1822)[2]
 Merica boucheti (Petit & Harasewych, 1986)
 Merica deynzeri Petit & Harasewych, 2000[3]
 Merica ektyphos Petit & Harasewych, 2000[4]
 Merica elegans (G.B. Sowerby I, 1822)[5]
 Merica gigantea (Lee & Lan, 2002)
 Merica laticosta (Löbbecke, 1881)[6]
 Merica lussii Petit & Harasewych, 2000[7]
 Merica marisca Bouchet & Petit, 2002[8]
 Merica melanostoma (Sowerby, 1849)[9]
 Merica oblonga (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)[10]
 Merica purpuriformis (Kiener, 1841)
 Merica sinensis (Reeve, 1856)[11]
 Merica stuardoi (McLean & Andrade, 1982)
Synonyms
  Merica (Merica) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854: alternate
representation of Merica H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
 Merica (Sydaphera) Iredale, 1929: synonym
of Sydaphera Iredale, 1929

References
1. ^ Jump up to:a b Merica H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. Retrieved
through: World Register of Marine Species on 27 December
2012.
2. Jump up^ Merica asperella (Lamarck, 1822). Retrieved
through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
3. Jump up^ Merica deynzeri Petit & Harasewych,
2000. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on
13 April 2010.
4. Jump up^ Merica ektyphos Petit & Harasewych,
2000. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on
13 April 2010.
5. Jump up^ Merica elegans (G.B. Sowerby I, 1822). Retrieved
through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
6. Jump up^ Merica laticosta (Löbbecke, 1881). Retrieved
through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
7. Jump up^ Merica lussii Petit & Harasewych, 2000. Retrieved
through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
8. Jump up^ Merica marisca Bouchet & Petit, 2002. Retrieved
through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
9. Jump up^ Merica melanostoma (Sowerby, 1849). Retrieved
through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
10. Jump up^ Merica oblonga (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825). Retrieved
through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.
11. Jump up^ Merica sinensis (Reeve, 1856). Retrieved
through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 April 2010.

External links
Look up Merica in
Wiktionary, the free
dictionary.

 Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and

illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately
published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and
corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and
errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007.
Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8

Wd: Q6819187

GBIF: 4363277

IRMNG: 1331235
NCBI: 912986
WoRMS: 206301

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